Unwrapping a Ball

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Sure, it’s not too difficult. Basically it goes like this:

1. Make your sphere editable;

2. Switch to the body paint UV editing preset layout;

3. With the sphere select, run Tools>Paint Setup Wizard;

4. Make sure the sphere is checked and click Next;

4. Uncheck “recalculate UVs and click Next;

5. Use the default settings here, but change the swatch next to Color to white and click Finish;

6. Now you should see your sphere’s UVs in the top-right window;

7. Activate the Colors tab in the lower-left panel and choose black;

8. In the layer menu (top or top-right), run the “Create UV Mesh Layer” command. That will automatically paint the edges black;

9. Finally, Save you UV layer as a bitmap you can import into PS (File>Save Texture).

hth

[Tom Slattery]

Thank you!

[Tom Slattery]

Thanks again for those steps.

I gave it a try and got to a point where I’m stumped. My model is the outer two ‘figure 8’ flaps of a baseball.

The resulting UV image winds up being a square-ish image, which I am guessing is normal. What I’m trying to get to is how the image would look on the two parts when flattened out.

Thanks!
~TPS